Well, that’s embarrassing. Modern NBA media and analytics put extreme emphasis on the 3-point shot and its efficiency over several 2-point shots. After all, 3 > 2 is indisputable. Out of all the metrics created, 3 point percentage…

This is my third post about point margins. At the risk of boring my readers with the same, seemingly mundane topic, I decided to write about it because I believe understanding point margins is of vital importance to formulating…

This post is a sequel to my last post: Using Regular Season Matchup Records to Predict Winning Teams in the Playoffs. In that post, we used regular-season matchup records to predict which team will advance to the next round…

Question: “Can I reliably predict which team will advance to the next round of the Playoffs by leveraging teams’ regular-season matchup records?” Before entering the Playoffs, each team has opportunities play against every other team in the league (3…

Yesterday, I started participating in a point spread betting competition with a few project collaborators for fun. Trying to be methodical, I wanted to get as much information as possible about each matchup and about the games themselves instead…

The 2017-18 NBA playoffs season has begun, and I figured it might be fitting to write a post related to NBA playoffs championships. I was looking at NBA teams’ regular-season rankings yesterday, provided via NBA Stats, and I was…

Stephen Curry’s all-time record of 402 3-point shots made in the 2015-16 season was simply amazing. At the time of this writing, Curry holds the record for having made the most number of 3-point shots in a single…

Introduction A few weeks ago, I saw a post on the NBA subreddit putting the 2003 San Antonio Spurs’ championship into perspective by comparing its roster to current players. While the original author’s logic is far too simple…

In basketball, a player can shoot either a 2-point shot or 3-point shot. Each 3-point shot made generates one extra point compared to a 2-point shot made. But it’s also more difficult to make a 3-point shot than…